Word: rundowns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...best broadcaster in baseball, who doesn't barter in cliches like "That hall had eyes on it" (a favorite of Sox announcer Ken Harrelson), or "You have to get hits to win ball games" (Kubek/Gowdy). Scully coins his own phrases; once when a player was trapped in a rundown and froze for an instant, panic on his face, Scully said, "he looks like a rabbit caught in a set of headlights." And Scully used binoculars to read lips during arguments with umpires. So you always bring a radio to Dodger Stadium (something considered mildly sacreligious in the Fenway Park bleachers...
...most compelling slides concern Jordan himself, losing his stuff but finding himself in the seedy, rundown parks of the minors. Surrounding him are other, less hopeful cases: men disputing the evidence of the statistics, making one last effort to reach the big time. "We deliberately kept our conversations elemental," Jordan recalls in A False Spring. "We deliberately thwarted growth because we feared it would lead to the realization, not that our dream was insignificant, but just that it was not significant enough to excuse our wasting all that time." Inevitably Jordan lost not merely games but his "perpetual innocence...
...government waited for the banks to close last Friday noon before announcing the austerity program. Almost immediately after Finance Minister Yehoshua Rabinowitz told the nation the bad news in a radio broadcast, riots broke out in the rundown Hatikva section of Tel Aviv. For three nights mobs of hundreds of people roamed through the streets stoning cars and policemen and looting shops. Orderly demonstrations took place in Haifa, at Ben-Gurion International Airport outside Tel Aviv, and in Ashdod. More ominous for the government than the demonstrations was the action of the 1,100,000-member General Federation of Labor...
...rundown of some key elections...
...curious as to whom to expect on the way to the shower, here's a rundown of each dorm's sexual makeup...